racing new cars from this era

My Maverick............"Drag Strip Only Car"............is at 3125 and that is without me..............it runs through the mufflers and still does 10.5's with
a throttle stop...........of course this was with the previous owner, so....................can I consider my car a Street Car?
Talking about the motor built for less than $1500...............what can you do for such little money to put it in the 10's? Maybe I should sell the Maverick and buy a rice eater. The heads on the Maverick are worth the whole $1500 for each one!

 

Because alot of guys fail when it comes to turboing those cars, the tuning is basically the hardest part.

Ive spent the last week just reading up on it, since i'm going to be tuning my brother in laws cars.

 

yep it is a street car, it was driven to the strip. 50 miles.
and to get it tuned it drove from B.C. to Washington.





Total sleeper! and these guys aren't the import guys you see on the fast and the furious that run big spoilers and slap on a million stickers, these guys make fun of those guys. They have a total maverick approach to their cars, just like us

 

i saw that it amazes me how these guys make their cars runs so fast with just a hairblower! hopefully if my current turbo project goes well, i can build a cheap turbo mav! v8 of course

 

there's guys here who drive their 9 second muscle cars on the street to fontana raceway... i think if you can drive it to the dragstrip it can be considered a street car.

 

Yep, I'll agree that good tuning is required for any fast car. I'm still not buying the $1500 motor that runs 10s. How much for the turbo,plumbing, electronics and such? Added all up and I'd say that guy's got close to 10k in that car, most of it in the driveline, whether it's admitted or not.
Definitely a sleeper car though, very suble appearance. I'd be fooled by it's looks.

 

Not a bad lookin car for a Honda. Kind of like our Mavs. used to be.
My neighbor drives her kids around in an old Honda that looks just like that one.
I cant see a car running 10's for 1500 bucks in the drivetrain. For that money I would guess 15's. Doesnt matter how you tune an engine its not going to make enough power to run 10's for 1500 bucks. The engine has mechanical limits as an air exchanger relative to displacement that arent improved dramatically for 1500 bucks. Unless you can buy,install and tune forced induction for 1500. If so then I might look into a Honda...

 

Was a member of the SCCA back in 1997-2002 as a father-son deal. We built a CP class Camaro (96 LT1 6-speed). We had to add weight as we got the weight down to 2750. A friend built a little Plymouth Laser turbo AWD car with slicks all around...the thing was wicked fast on an autocross course and in the 1/4 (11s). He had the front and rear diffs locked together. When it worked it was unbeatable, but he broke it all the time--trannys and transaxles. I'll see if I can find an old pic or two.





There we go...still haven't figured out how to do thumbnails.
I've had alot of fast cars in my time starting in 1972 with a 69 Plymouth GTX 440/375 hp. My 2000 B4C Camaro Texas State Trooper car was the overall fastest and fun to drive. Sold it when my daughter was clocked in excess of 145 mph in it on a local interstate. I have a 99 Camaro Z28 now that I really enjoy driving and a new Vette convertible I'm looking forward to driving if the da$$ snow and salt ever leaves. Anyway, the new muscle cars are fast and much easier to drive even though they are heavy. It would take a stout street Maverick to beat them.

 

well the way i look at it when they get the other half of their motor maybe they'll have something. my mtn dew has more liters

 

people who claim that they only have $1500 in a motor that runs 10s are usually professional builders. they use left over parts or trade labor for parts, have friends that hook them up with free labor, etc... i know thats how alot of my car has been built. ive traded lots of labor for work on my car. i dont have lots of money but ive got time and valuable skills to offset the cost. for a person who doenst work in the industry to reproduce that honda would probly cost at least 5 to 10 grand.

i am not a import fan at all. i am a sleeper fan. i love a good sleeper car. last sun. at fontana there was a accord wagon sleeper. this thing looked line moms car. it had the stock tail pipe and muffler, the cage was tight against the pillars and body of the car and really hard to see. it sounded like it had just an exhast system on it but not a lound anoying one. it ran a 11.00 at 125. it was awsome. that car could win alot of money running in street races if the owner wanted. it has some dohc motor with a big turbo under hood. the guy had the laptop hooked up to it after the run downloading the datalog. thats a car that i can respect. expecialy listening to really loud hondas run 15s all day.

 

my buddie has a eg hatch w a k20r his cams alone were 1,000 bucks. other than a ebay pos turbo kit...ive yet to see a decent kit for under 2k

and what about cv shafts in a fwd. any real honda guy will tell u how they bring a few spare sets because they blow em up so much. so u spend 500 bucks on stock shafts that u replace all the time orrr 500 bucks for some quality shafts that will still be demolished. the ricer game is just like anything else..the numerous s***talkers ruin it for the serious guys.

 

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i ran my cousins stock 03 cobra and beat him through the 1/8th mile. he was catching up pretty quick tho. i outrun my buddies stage 2 srt4 pretty bad. i beat a 99 ls1 z28 through the 1/8th mile. i got outrun by a 93 fox body mustang with a 331 in it, that was a quick car. i sprayed my car one night to run a new mach 1 with nitrous and beat it pretty easy but he didnt have good tires so he spun bad, probly would have been a real good race if he had slicks. thats about all the new cars i have ran.